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Jacob Shallus or Shalus (1750–April 18, 1796) [1] was the engrosser or penman of the original copy of the United States Constitution. The handwritten document that Shallus engrossed is on display in the Rotunda of the Charters of Freedom at the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.
The Constitution of the United States is the oldest and longest-standing written and codified national constitution in force in the world. [ 4 ] [ a ] The drafting of the Constitution , often referred to as its framing, was completed at the Constitutional Convention , which assembled at Independence Hall in Philadelphia between May 25 and ...
The United States Constitution has served as the supreme law of the United States since taking effect in 1789. The document was written at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention and was ratified through a series of state conventions held in 1787 and 1788.
If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...
During a recent visit to the school library, Keller said one student grew animated upon seeing an image of the U.S. Constitution, written in 1787, remarking, "It's cursive!"
Framers of the Constitution. National Archives and Records Administration. pp. 235– 241. ISBN 978-0-911333-43-5. Myers, Denys P. (1961). "History of the Printed Archetype". The Constitution of the United States of America. Congressional Serial Set. No. 12349. S. Doc. No. 49, 87th Cong., 1st Sess. United States Government Printing Office.
Only a fraction of the 100 copies of the Constitution were signed by then-Secretary of Congress Charles Thomson in 1787. The one found in North Carolina is one of them.
Created: September 17, 1787 [1] Presented: September 28, 1787 [2] Ratified: June 21, 1788 [3] Date effective: March 4, 1789 [4]. The bibliography of the United States Constitution is a comprehensive selection of books, journal articles and various primary sources about and primarily related to the Constitution of the United States that have been published since its ratification in 1788.